Brush.



Patented pr. I, |902.

BRUSH.

J. M. CHAMBERS.

(Application led June 7, 1901.)

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WITNESSES UNTTEE STETEE FETEETT Enron.

JAMES M. CHAMBERS, OF THOMASTON, CONNECTICUT.

BRUSH.

SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,798, dated April 1,1902. l

Application filed June 7, 1901. Serial No. 63,536. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. CHAMBERS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Thomaston, in the county of Litchfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and Improved Brush, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in brushes, particularly toiletbrushes, such as hair, tooth, and clothes brushes; and the object is toprovide a brush so constructed that when not in use the bristles maybefolded onto the head or casing and covered up, the whole being incompact form, so that the brush may be conveniently carried in a personspocket or packed with baggage.

I will describe a brush embodying my invention and then point out lthenovel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis speciication, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a brush embodying my invention with a portionof the combined handle and cover broken away. Fig. 2 is across-sectionof the brush. Figs. 3 and e are side views, partly in section, showingdifferent positions of the brush-bristles. Fig. 5 is a plan view showingthe position of parts when the brush is not in use, some ofthe bristles,however, being omitted; and Figs. G and 7 are sectional details showingmoving and locking devices employed.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the head Orca-sing of the brush,the top 2 of which is removably engaged therewith, so that the innermechanism of the device may be readily cleaned when desired. Mounted torock in the casing are bristle-carrying bars 3. These bars havetrunnion-bearings inthe side rails of the casing, and on each bar is aseries of sockets 4 for receiving clusters of bristles or abrushmaterial. Shifting bars 5 are arranged to slide at the opposite sides ofthe casing 1, and these shifting bars are provided at the upper edgewith notches 6, designed to receive projections or lugs 7 on the ends ofthe bristle or brush carrying bars. At one end the shifting bars 5 areconnected to the ends of a spring 8, the center portion of saidspring/being connected to an end wall of the casing, as clearlyindicated in Fig. 1. At the opposite end the bars 5 are connected bymeans of a rod 9.

At the handle end of the casing are extended portions 10, which formchambers into which a shaft 11 extends. This shaft 11 at its ends hasbearings in brackets 12, and connected to the shaft between theprojections 10 is a combined handle and cover -for the brush. As hereshown, this combined handle and cover consists of a central section 13,extended from a sleeve 14, which surrounds and is connected to the shaft1l by means of a pin, (indicated in Fig. 5,) and havingahingedVconnection with this section 13 of the combined handle and lever areflaps 15.

Mounted on the shaft 11 within the chambers formed by the projections 10are eccentrics 1G, from which an eccentric-rod 17 extends to aconnection with the rod 9, and in each eccentric is provided a recess orbore in which a locking-pin 18 is designed to slide, the saidlocking-pin being pressed normally outward by means of a spring 19, andit is adapted to engage with a perforation in. the bracket 12. Engagingloosely with the locking-pin 18 is a push-pin 20, which extends outwardthrough an opening in the side wall of the casing and is held normallyoutward, as indicated in Fig. 7, by means of aspringZl.

In operation by swinging the combined handle and cover outward the shaft11 will be rotated and the eccentrics thereon will cause the shiftingbars 5 to slide toward the end of the casing opposite the handle, andthe lugs or projections 7 by engaging with the walls of the notches insaid bars will cause a rocking motion of the brush-bars, moving theAbristles to operative position, as clearly indicated in Figs. 4 and 5.At the end of the extreme movement the pins 18 will be forced into theperforations in the brackets 12, thus locking the parts in operativeposition. Now by folding the flaps 15 down upon the central portion, asclearly indicated in Fig. 5, a handle for the brush will be formed, andthis handle will be secured from rocking or swinging relatively to thecasing by any desired means. When it is desired to move the bristlesinto the casing, the push-pins 2O are to IOO be forced inward, causingthe locking-pins 18 to be moved out of the perforations in the brackets12, and when thus released from the brackets the spring 8 will cause amovement of the shifting bars toward the handle end of the casing whichwill cause the rocking motion of the bristle or brush bars to move thebristles into the casing, as indicated in Fig. 3. Then the flaps 15 areto be swung outward and the combined handle and cover` turned over toform a cover for the casing, as indicated in Fig. 1.

A brush embodying my invention will be found very convenient, especiallyfor travel- .ers and for business men. While in the drawings I haveshown the invention as arranged for a hair-brush, it is to beunderstood, as before mentioned, that the same mechanism and arrangementof parts may be carried out for brushes for other purposes, adapting thedevice, of course, to the proper sizes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A brush, comprising a casing, brush materialcarrying bars mounted to rock in said casing, shifting bars movablelengthwise in the casing, parts on the rocking bars for engaging withthe shifting bars, a combined handle and cover having swingingconnection with the casing, and means operated by a swinging movement ofsaid handle and cover for moving the shifting bars in one direction, thesaid cover consisting of sections connected to fold one upon another,substantially as specified.

2. A brush, comprising a casing, brush-carrying bars mounted to rock insaid casing, shifting bars movable longitudinally in the casing andhaving notches in their upper edges, projections on the rocking bars forengagingin said notches, a rod connection between the shifting bars atone end, a spring engaging with the other ends of the shifting bars, ashaft mounted at one end of the casing, eccentrics mounted on saidshaft, an eccentric-rod extended from the eccentrics to theconnecting-rod of the shifting bars, a locking device for the shaft, anda combined cover and handle connected to said shaft,sub stantially asspecified.

3. In a brush, a casing, bristle-carrying bars mounted to rock in saidcasing, shifting bars connecting with said rock-bars, a combined handleand cover, consisting of an inner portion and two aps or wings hinged tothe side edges thereof, and means operated bya swinging movementof thecombined handle and cover for moving the shifting bars in one direction,substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES M. CHAMBERS.

Witnesses:

ALBERT P. BRADSTREET, INA F. Beides.

